Hunter Biden is facing legal trouble on multiple fronts, but it's been an unorthodox journey to get here. Attorney General Merrick Garland will answer questions this week about the investigation into President Joe Biden's son, where the spotlight will be on how much Joe Biden knew about his son's…
Hunter Biden is facing legal trouble on multiple fronts, but it's been an unorthodox journey to get here. Attorney General Merrick Garland will answer questions this week about the investigation into President Joe Biden's son, where the spotlight will be on how much Joe Biden knew about his son's business dealings. In this series, Wayward Son, the Washington Examiner will investigate how we got here.
The most pressing set of questions for Garland may involve the authority Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss had during the first four years of the Hunter Biden investigation. Garland’s appointment of Weiss as a special counsel has deepened the scrutiny of the attorney general’s past statements given that Weiss would not have needed the appointment if he had indeed enjoyed autonomy throughout the investigation.
IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley said that investigators decided that alleged violations occurring in 2014 and 2015 should be charged in Washington, D.C., and “the remaining tax years, 2016, '17, '18, and '19, needed to be brought in the Central District of California,” according to a transcript of his testimony.
Garland may face questions about the timing of the outreach to Estrada just days after he took office, particularly given that multiple witnesses have said investigators gathered more than enough evidence to build a case in California months earlier.Hunter Biden is clearly the main target of the investigation that agents nicknamed"Sportsman"; he’s already faced now-withdrawn tax charges and felony gun charges stemming from the investigation.
A lawyer for Devon Archer, one of Hunter Biden’s former business associates, told the House Oversight Committee that Archer received immunity before testifying before the grand jury in Delaware. The allegation came from the recollections of a source whom the FBI seems to have treated as highly credible in the past.
But the FBI and the Justice Department have refused for months to answer questions about what, if anything, investigators did to substantiate the allegation.Specific names surface in the FD-1023 form, including two Burisma executives and a third Ukrainian, Oleksandr Ostapenko, who has since spoken out with corroborating claims of Biden family corruption in Ukraine. Ostapenko faces U.S. sanctions for alleged election meddling related to his public accusations against the Biden family.
Shapley said the request was strange because the Justice Department usually only requests emails at the case agent level and only because those communications could appear in discovery. Emails and documents written by their supervisors, however, aren’t discoverable, and therefore the DOJ’s typical reason for reviewing them didn’t apply in the Hunter Biden case.
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